3.9.13

OFFICIAL RESULT OF ABU ROBOCON VIETNAM 2013

ABU ROBOCON VIETNAM 2013 was held from 16 August 2013 until 20 August 2013 at Tien Son Sports Centre, Danang, Vietnam. The contest with the theme “The Green Planet” was set with the message: “Each nation is a piece of the puzzle that forms the world; the responsibility to protect the earth thus lies on the shoulder of each person living on it."The competition attracted teams from 18 countries and region. The other participating countries are Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia and etc.

Kanazawa Institute of Technology from Japan successfully beat their hosts, Viet Nam 1 in the final with 51 seconds. It is the second time that Japan has won the Championship since the contest debuted in Tokyo in 2002. Vietnam 2 and Indonesia drew for the third place.

The UTM Robocon team which consists of 29 undergraduate students represented Malaysia to compete in ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest and won the Special Award, PANASONIC AWARD.

Congratulations to JAPAN who won the Grand Prix Award and also the Electronic Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya from INDONESIA who won the ABU Robocon AWARD.